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- Object Biography #6: The Crown From A Colossal Statue Of Ramesses Ii (acc. No. 1783)
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Egypt
Depiction of Ramesses III found at Karnak
Eypt State Information Service
A big archaeological slab dating back to the era of Ramesses III, the most famous king of the Dynasty 20 (The Modern State era) was found.
The slab shows Ramesses III while providing sacrifices and offerings to the god Amon Ra, the god of the country and the Egyptian empire at the time.
Behind him as shown in the slab, stands his famous wife goddess Amont while wearing her famous crown.
- Object Biography #6: The Crown From A Colossal Statue Of Ramesses Ii (acc. No. 1783)
Egypt at the Manchester Museum (Campbell Price) As Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her Diamond Jubilee, it seemed appropriate to highlight this magnificent fragment from a colossus of another monarch who celebrated 60 years on the throne. It comes from...
- Syria Unearths 2,300-year-old Pharaonic Engraving
AFP Syrian archaeologists have unearthed a hieroglyph close to Damascus which dates back to the pharaonic period around 1,300 years BC, the official SANA news agency reported on Saturday. "The antiquities department has discovered a hieroglyph on the...
- The Murder Of Ramesses Iii: Revision
Recent CT scans on the mummy of ancient Egypt's last great Pharaoh Rameses III has found evidence that the king was murdered by having his throat slit. The murder of Ramesses was long suspected from a 3000 year old document known as the harem conspiracy...
- The Great Missing
There is little doubt of three caches of kings from the end of the New Kingdom yet one cache is clearly missing and perhaps today represented only by its absence. The great cache of 1881 found a prince named Ahmosis though sadly he is not the liberator...
- Who's Out
With the advent of tomography, CT scans and DNA very little is left private. The naked bodies of ancient king's lay for the most part in the lands where they lived but some journey after their dead. Leaving Egypt 140 years ago to house in a Niagara...